adamscarberry/cdk-playground

Start up environemnt

docker compose up --build

Jump into cdk container if you wish to run the commands below.

AWS CLI examples

Create S3 Bucket in Localstack:

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aws s3api create-bucket --bucket mybucket --region us-east-1 --endpoint http://${LOCALSTACK_HOSTNAME}:4566

or (use the awslocal tool)

awslocal s3api create-bucket --bucket mybucket --region us-east-1

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List S3 Bucket in Localstack:

aws s3 ls --endpoint http://${LOCALSTACK_HOSTNAME}:4566

or

awslocal s3 ls

AWS CDK with Localstack

cdklocal bootstrap aws://000000000000/us-east-1

Notice we're using cdklocal and not cdk in the above example with localstack

Check the new S3 bucket just created:

awslocal s3 ls

It should look something like:

cdk-hnb659fds-assets-000000000000-us-east-1

Make a project folder and hop inside

mkdir testapp && cd testapp

Init the testapp

cdklocal init testapp --language python

Localstack services status

http://localhost:4566/\_localstack/health

Useful commands

Use cdklocal for Localstack

• cdk ls list all stacks in the app
• cdk synth emits the synthesized CloudFormation template
• cdk deploy deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region
• cdk diff compare deployed stack with current state
• cdk docs open CDK documentation

Packages used:

• awslocal - https://github.com/localstack/awscli-local
• cdklocal - https://github.com/localstack/aws-cdk-local

Resources:

• Your first AWS CDK app - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/v2/guide/hello_world.html
• Constructs Hub - https://constructs.dev/